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Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean language spoken along the Vaupés River in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately
100 people. Another approximately 1,500 people in the upper and middle Vaupés River area identify themselves as ethnic Tariana
but no longer speak the language. The Tariana and East Tucano peoples are linguistically exogamous and consider fellow speakers
of their languages blood relatives. Languages, like tribal identity, are acquired through patrilineal descent and as such
are kept strictly separate from one another, with minimal lexical borrowing occurring among them. Traditionally, Indians in
the Vaupés region spoke between three and ten other languages, including their mother's tongue and Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Speakers of Tariana have been switching to the unrelated Tucano language (of the Tucanoan family), which became a lingua franca
in the Vaupés region in the late nineteenth century. Arriving in the region in the 1920s, Salesian missionaries promoted the
exclusive use of Tucano among Indians in an effort to civilize them. Economic concerns have also led fathers to increasingly
leave their families to work for non-Amerindian Brazilians, which has undermined the patrilineal father-child interaction
through which Tariana was traditionally acquired. In 1999, efforts were made to teach Tariana as a second language in the
secondary school in Iauaretê. Regular classes in Tariana have been offered at the school since 2003. Research on Tariana,
including a grammar book and a Tariana-Portuguese dictionary have been written by Alexandra Aikhenvald from the La Trobe University,
who is a specialist on the Arawak language family. |
Names (more)[en] Tariana language |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : taeLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/taehttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tae More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: taeFreebase ISO 639-3 : tae GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |